Whose Quotes

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.